So actually spending so much time talking about Awakening makes me want to talk about other FE games as well. I’m sorry. (no, actually I’m not. I’m not a super fan-type person, and I only care about two things: Fire Emblem and Redwall. I have no one to talk with about either of those things. So all of you get to suffer.)
So anyway, while I like pretty much all of the FE games I’ve played there are some that I just don’t like as much. I’m listing them from least to most liked and talking about why. Onwards!
Least favorite: Shadow Dragon. Ugh, where do I even start? First of all the graphics are really weird. Everything looks blurry and I can’t even handle Marth’s stupid chin. For another thing, the game is super imbalanced. I was playing on normal but even still, the healing staves only restore ten HP points ever, and no one has very much HP to begin with. I’ve got characters leveled all the way up who have less than 40 HP. I can’t count on any of my characters because the enemies are so much more powerful. Everyone but Marth is pretty much worthless to me. And I don’t like the characters much either. I basically like one character and he doesn’t even have any good supports. What even. Also I hate the fact that I HAVE to sacrifice certain people. I mean sure I usually use all the characters I don’t like as meat-shields anyway and send them onto the field with no weapons to die…but that doesn’t mean I want to sit there and look at my army and be like “you, you get to die for the greater good. Off you scoot.” So actually I don’t like Shadow Dragon very much, but it’s still a FE game and I’ll still play it more than once, probably.
Second Least Favorite: Sacred Stones. Sacred Stones is…er…not a FE game to me. I talked about it when I talked about Awakening, that I don’t like how easy it is or how you’re fighting monsters instead of people. None-the-less I do like a lot of the characters and the story is super depressing which is how I like it. And it does have good-ish mechanics. So it’s better than Shadow Dragon and I did like it, but I don’t really like it as a part of the FE lineup.
The middle: Awakening/Radiant Dawn. Ok well I talked enough about Awakening, which I love. Honestly the only reason it’s down in third is because, like I said, I find a lot of the characters very boring. Except for Chrom/Me/Family and Panne…did I mention how much I love Panne? I know most of the other games also have animal shape-shifters but they’re all pretty generic things. Dragons…cats…wolves…but rabbits? I LOVE IT. I love that they took something like a rabbit and made into this huge demonic TANK of a fighter and they are totally unapologetic about it. I mean one of Yarne’s critical attack lines is even “don’t mess with a bunny”. That is fabulous. I love the Taguel, like many other things about the game.
Aah, Radiant Dawn. I feel weird talking about it because I’m only half-way through it. Also since it’s such a close sequel to PoR, and I’ll talk about everything I love there. But dude the support conversations are super screwed up and that loses you brownie points. Sorry, Radiant Dawn.
Second Favorite: Path of Radiance. I love this game. Seriously, after I got it I did nothing else. I beat the whole thing in two days. I love the story, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the characters – pretty much all of them. At first I felt so weird playing a FE game on something other than a handheld but man, I love it. The only problem is that it was so easy for me to beat. Next time I’ll play on expert mode. I assume expert mode for this game is like normal mode for the others. But still, I can’t say a lot of shit about this game. And Soren is still one of my favorite characters in anything ever. Also, if you know how to read the dialogue properly this game is super dirty and that makes my life.
Favorite: Blazing Sword. I don’t even know what to say really. I know that it was the first one and I played it the year it came out and some might attribute my unholy, unrelenting obsession to nostalgia, but that’s not really it. First of all I love the characters (well except two. Eliwood is a tool and Ninian is a twit, but that’s beside the point). I found this game super hard to beat. I got it for Christmas in 2003 and I didn’t beat it until the beginning of last year. Which is sad, but whatever. In my opinion Blazing Sword is the hardest and that’s part of why I like it. I was never really a gamer. I played a handful of GBA games but none of them held my interest for long. But Blazing Sword is INTERESTING, and it’s a challenge. I like the mechanics of it, it’s incredibly fun to play, I love the characters and the plot is pretty good. This is the game that I’ve wasted a decade of my life playing over and over and over and over. The only thing, though…the villain’s name is Nergal? Really?
And also I’m still kind of in love with Hector after all these years. My car is named Hector. My OTP is Lyn and Hector. That has never changed. It never will.
So anyway I really really really like Fire Emblem and I always want to talk about and I never get to. So, sometimes I just have to let off some steam by posting giant rants about it on the internet.
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